Fortune Quotes - Page 40

• Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.

  Grover Cleveland

  Honesty, Book, Blessed

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• Compassion is something we can count on. Even if we face economic problems and our fortunes decline, we can still share our compassion with our fellow human beings. National and global economies are subject to many ups and downs, but through them all we can retain a compassionate attitude that will carry us through.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Compassion, Faces

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• Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm
  With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Art, Slavery

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Cymbeline. Timon of Athens”, p.387

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• The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Revenge, Adversity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.297

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• Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals, so he is, and so he appears; he does not see that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his actions; that fortunes are not exceptions but fruits; that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany, no exemption, no anomaly,--but method, and an even web; and what comes out, that was put in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Son, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.294, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Joy, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.257, Рипол Классик

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• Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hands, Pay, Too Much

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.17

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• The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Luck, Genius, Vulgar

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.216

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• The two black lines on the armband means that they're the deceased's family. One line means they are either friends or acquaintances. One line of the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines, they'll be the hardest farewells I'll have to make in my life, and they're the luckiest fortune I've met in my lifetime.

  Yoon Sang-hyun

  Farewell, Heart, Mean

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• The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Mean, Numbers, Careers

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• It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Blessing, Passionate

  "Statement from President Clinton and Secretary Clinton on the Passing of Governor Mario Cuomo", www.clintonfoundation.org. January 1, 2015.

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• When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Revenge, Philosophical, Mind

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• We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Imagination, Imagine, Fortunate

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• Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Men, Order

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• Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Light, Sight, Vices

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• The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Funny, Humor, Fickle

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• Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Able, Faults, Would Be

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• No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Kind, Blind

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• Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fall, Greatness, Envy

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• The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Desire, Moderation

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• There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Thinking, Envy

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• You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it.

  Thucydides

  Mistake, Pieces, Gains

  Thucydides, Ruth Finnegan “History of Greece”, Lulu.com

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• Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.

  Propertius

  Numbers, Desire, Finals

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• I have the good fortune of knowing both John McCain and Donald Trump well, both men have more in common than the today's media hype would have you believe. Both blazed trails in their careers and love our great nation.

  Sarah Palin

  Love, Believe, Men

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• Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long as there is ink and paper in the world? I cannot keep a record of my life by my actions; fortune places them too low. I keep it by my thoughts.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Taken, Ink And Paper, Long

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.721, Stanford University Press

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